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How does Lemmy/Mastodon/Fediverse store videos and images?
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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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Edit: I am partially wrong. (See below)
They're stored on their host Instance. Only text is copied across instances.
That sounds good for reliability since an instance can still lookup posts even if another fails.
For videos and images, do they store them as blobs in the database or do they use something more catered to files like object storage or maybe a regular filesystem with metadata on a database?
They use pict-rs which looks like it was file system, but is now object storage
That's an awesome name. The Rust community never fails to deliver lol